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ST. CALLISTHENE 141 St. Cainder, or Kennkbe, Not. 5, daughter of Caelan of Binnh AUaid. Irish. Forbes, Kalendars. St. Cainner,'or Eennere, Jan. 28, Danghter of Cruithnechan, worshipped at Eilcullen, Eildare. Forbes, Kalen- dars, " Kcnnere," from Colgan. Caintigerna, Kentioerna. St Caiola, Gaiola. St. Cairecha, Kairecha. St Calamanda, or Calamakdra, Feb. 0, Y. of Catalonia, M. Eepresented holding a palm-branch, in a picture in the church of St. James at CalafEum, where an altar Tas dedicated to her. She is invoked with success when rain is wanted. Some authors suppose her to have been a companion of St. Ursula. Henschenius, in AA,SS. St. Calamandra, Calamanda. Ven.Calefaie,orCALEFAOLi. Teacher of St. Ausonius, first bishop of Angou- l^me. Guerin. St. Calis. {See Chariessa.) St Calista, Jan. 19, M. in Africa, with more than six hundred others. AA,SS, St Cailinica (l), or Callinicus, March 22. "f c. 252. In the reign of the Emperor Decius, St. Basilissa (2), a rich woman of Gkilatia, employed • Cailinica to carry gifts of money, food, and other necessaries to the imprisoned Christians ; at the same time, she used to entreat them to pray that her faith and courage might not fail in time of need. One day Cailinica was caught ministering to the prisoners. Her exami- nation and confession led to the arrest of Basilissa. Both avowing their belief in Christ, and steadfastly refusing to sacrifice to the idols, were tortured and beheaded. In some of the old calendars they are called two holy women ; in others, Callinicus is called a man. Other accounts place them in the reign of Trajan, and describe them as two of the five companions of his daughter Drozella, or Drosis. Another account says they were companions of St. Beryllus, a native of Antioch, appointed first Bishop of Catania, in Sicily, by St. Peter the apostle. B.M. AA,S8. St Cailinica (2). (See Niceta^ St. Calliope Lerama, June 8, v. M. Bepresented with a hot iron held to her breast. She is honoured in the Greek Church, and believed to have been put to death with tortures of peculiar atrocity in the reign of the Emperor Decius. The Spanish hagiologists say her martyr*- dom took place in the reign of Nero and at the town of Triboraoi, called in her honour Lerma. There is a great deal more about her in Salazar which Hen- schenius leaves to those who are greedy of such inventions. B,M.,AA,SS. Callot. Husenbeth. SS. Callista (l) and Christa, Feb. 5, MM. They were hired to induce St. Dorothy (1) to follow their example and apostatize. They not only failed to pervert her, but were influenced by her to repent and return to the true religion, and were martyred by being plunged into a boiling caldron. They are com- memorated with SS. Dorothy and Theo- philus. Legend says they were sisters of Dorothy, but Tillemont does not mention this. Tillemont, v. 498. St. Callista (2), with her brothers,. SS. Evodius and Etermogenes, April 25, Sept. 2, M. c. 304. She encouraged them to endure martyrdom at Syracuse B,M, St. Caliisthene, Oct. 4. 4th century. .Lived at Ephesus with her father, St; Audactus, a Christian duke. She un- wittingly attracted the admiration of Maximianus (afterwards Emperor). As he was a monster of wickedness, Audac- tus sent her out of the way. Maximianus revenged himself for her disappearance by confiscating the goods of the &mily,. and banishing them to a neighbouring province. There the local authorities were ordered to compel Audactus to- sacrifice to the gods, and, as he resisted, he was beheaded. Caliisthene, to escape from further persecution, cut ofif her hair and dressed herself as a man, and under this disguise lived for several years at. Nicomedia. During this time she appears^ to have maintained herself by the prac- tice of medicine. We next hear of her in Thrace, attending a girl who had a disease of the eyes and was threatened with blindness. She recovered, and her grateful parents were so pleased with, their young doctor that they proposed